Improved composition for water-proof paint



@ r game @ifm. g 0 WW f I DANIEL M. communes, or ENFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE,ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WASHINGTON IRVING GONANT, or SAME PLACE,

Letters Patent No. 85,216, dated December 22, 1.868.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, DANIEL M. CUMMINGS, of Enfield, in the countyoi'Grcfton, and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and improvedComposition of Matter in the Shape of it Tater-Proof Painting orCoating-Mixture; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full andexact description of the method of producing the same.

The said mixture is composed of clay, tar, oil, ashes, and oxide ofiron, in about the following proportions, viz: clay; tar; oil;iieshes,a11d oxide of iron.

These ingredients, when thoroughly incorporated with each other, willproduce a perfectly water-proof coating for street-sidewalks, roofs,cisterns, basementfloors, sewers, &Q.; and when reduced to the properconsistence, by the addition of oil or'other suitable fluid, it can beemployed as a water-proof paint, for the painting of any exposedsurfaces of wood, metal, cloth, &0. T

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, asa new composition of matter, is-- A waterproof coating or paintingmixture, composed of clay, tar, oil, ashes, and oxide ofiron, in about

